Sunday, November 30, 2008

Luca woke up devoid of fever, so we decided it was time for a public outing. We had planned on doing some holiday shopping at an arts festival that was going on, but they were rained out.

So - we broke out the umbrellas and Luca's rain gear and took a walk downtown to find some lunch. And some puddles.

I made fun of Lori's umbrella. You would have too.

Luca had fun splashing around and waving to the tourists on passing trolleys.

After a bite to eat at a local seafood place, we walked over to our favorite coffee shop.

It's a cool old building that started out as a silversmith's shop, and dates back to the 1700's.

Ida proved her love for Luca by letting him lick the fresh whipped cream off of her Americano.

It was a nice mid-day respite. Otherwise - it's been tantrum central today. He's testing us A LOT lately. Pushing limits, acting out and being much more difficult than usual. It has me worried, but a part of me knows that it's just his was of dealing with a baby on the way. I know we'll all get over this hump, but it leaves us emotionally and physically exhausted by the end of the day. Now that he's feeling better, I plan on getting us outside a lot this week. Fresh air, vitamin D and exercise will do us both some good.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Luca is on the fourth day of a fever. I hate these things. He recovers with motrin or tylenol for a bit - but, after three days straight, I am almost more of afraid of giving him too many meds than I am of the fever. We're on the sixth hour of this morning's dose and it's climbing again - but we are going to try to hold off for a bit and let the fever do it's job. In the late afternoon and the middle of the night, it climbs to 104.5 plus. We were all up at 3am this morning - a lukewarm bath, cold drinks and cool compresses. We let him watch an episode of Dragon Tales in the middle of it all - so he and I ate popcorn and watched his show while I plied him with liquids and damp wash cloths in the middle of the night. Hope he doesn't remember that one.

We debated about going to Lori and Ida's today - but we are going to go for it. We've been homebound for the last three days and we all need to get out. We've packed a bag with his sickie accessories - his stuffed jaguar, jammies, a few toys, movies, thermometer, motrin and cold drink concoctions. I don't think this thing is contagious and, once we dose him again, he's fine for quite a long stretch. I hope we are making the right decision.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Here's what I have to do...1) Choose the 4th picture folder on my computer2) Choose the 4th picture3) Explain the picture4) Tag 4 other people

I have a Mac - so I am going into my fourth "events" folder in iPhoto.

Pre-Luca, I worked pretty consistently with a wonderful company - Banyan Productions. I was with them for the better part of ten years as a location and studio producer for several different shows they produced. In this shot, I am on the set of The Travel Channel's Epicurious. That's the host - Chef Michael Lomonaco - in the background (presumably about to shake hands with the segment guest). It was the Hawaii show, I am pretty sure. I think this may have been a coffee segment, or a drink segment, or something. That's me, plugging stuff into the secret outlets behind the kitchen island on set. I was very pregnant with Luca at the time and I had just come back from shooting in Puerto Rico where an unfriendly flight attendant accused me of going into labor because I got up so many times to use the bathroom.

Monday, November 24, 2008

We got to the park really early this morning. At first, Luca was upset that his friends weren't there yet - but he changed his tune when he realized he would have the slide all to himself for awhile...